After a brief introduction of self-categorization theory which serves as the basis of this process, the paper systematically reviewed the researches on the effects of self-stereotyping on behaviors and attitudes, as well as the influencing factors of self-stereotyping.

In this book, Liu Xin has not only successfully summarized the existence of the Chinese in the transitional period as "the otherness of self" but also brought up some enlightening views on the development of ethnographical methods in the new period as follows: the analysis of the characters should develop into a special met.